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...found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish Our Dumb Century, a compendium of mock front pages from editions of the Onion that, of course, never existed (JOHNSON VOWS TO HONOR KENNEDY'S MEMORY BY TAKING PLUMP YOUNG MISTRESS). And Dikkers says the Onion is talking with one of the networks--he won't say which--to do a special based on the book next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the News That's Unfit | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...cost of its products in order to keep its struggling customers. "It's been the most difficult time in our history, and we've been around for 25 years," says vice president Joseph Ryan. "We sacrificed margin to maintain market share. I had my bankers call us stupid and dumb. But we're the only ones in the market now. I actually feel the worst is over. I can see rock bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: The Coming Storm | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...have 50 years ago, when they emerged from his shack of a studio on New York's Long Island. But how great is "great"? Meaning has drained out of the idea of greatness because today it is so inextricably confused with fame, and fame with celebrity, all on the dumb level of publicity--and Pollock is the most publicized and celebrated artist in American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Republicans aren't going to be dumb forever. Parties aren't masochists. Eventually they're going to wake up and realize something is wrong," he added...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dukakis Stresses Grassroots Politics | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...They'll want to meet your boyfriend. They'll want to hang around your room. By Friday night, you'll want them to go home. Movies in The Square With the closing of the Sony Janus, it's now even tougher to catch mainstream fare. Even smart folk want dumb flicks. Jesse "The Body" Ventura Former WWF star now a promising Minnesota gubernatorial candidate. Hubert Humphrey, watch out for the suplex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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